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Natural Grid

10/29/2009 4:07 AM

It involves money effort and man-power to supply electricity to far off areas and which also included Transportation and distribution losses. More so ever if the community involves 20-30 homes.

y cant a grid involving solar electricity, wind power, if possible bio-electricity be established to give power to the respective homes.

Every homes having either a small solar plant, or a wind turbine powering their needs and also catering to the others by giving the excess generated to others or powering the street lights at night.

Is this a possibility.

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Re: Natural Grid

10/29/2009 4:28 AM

Google "microgeneration".

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Re: Natural Grid

11/02/2009 4:59 PM

The storage of power has been and will be a major problem in this case. When wind speeds will be low and sunlight unavailable, it will affect all the homes in that location. using a deep cycle battery pack is the common solution for power storage... this may also serve to "smooothen" the power in the grid. the system of 20-30 homes will require each to have a battery storage system that will feed to the grid.....the idea is a good one..but for 20-30 average homes a single medium scale wind-solar hybrid will be a more economic investment......

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Re: Natural Grid

11/02/2009 11:49 PM

Thank you for your suggestion Mr.Ram. You definitely have a valid point here but the storage of electricity is a challenging task. Same way how a inverter works in cities could be applied to the far fledged areas. The As far as Power generation is concerned using the hybrid solar and wind generation methods the net usage per house would be to use lights,fans,and related equipments. To this if a generator suitably modified to work with bio-fuels is included then it will get the system powered up with using minimum resources which is more or less a practical viability.

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Re: Natural Grid

11/04/2009 4:07 PM

the economies of scale kick in and the cost per house goes up. Other issue are:

What happens when a storm takes down your wind generators, who get's their power cut off first?

How do you regulate use?

What if everyone turns on their stoves all at once?

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Re: Natural Grid

11/04/2009 11:58 PM

Thank you for ur reply.

The scale kick per house can be reduced if there is a support given by the government as there is no cost involved in setting up power grid to far off places. This can be offset by govt. subsidy given for the entire project.

The storm affects even in normal transmission where the Power lines are disrupted due to damage to the transmission lines, Power surges etc. Since it has both solar wind and Bio-fuel powered generator. There will be no complete set back of power loss.

Regulate the use is based upon the user discretion. This cannot be achieved by a single household but a community initiative. Further more the community can register itself as green community and can buy Carbon Credit.

The last being all turning on their stoves which is a remote possibility but still there are cahnces of it to happen. Then is where the additional Battery Power kicks in.

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11/05/2009 1:13 PM

Great, everything paid for by tax payers so I end up paying for you power, no way. YOU install it all and if you want connected to the grid for back up, you will pay $.50/kw-hr.

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